Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Crestor vs Vytorin - John Mack spots the irony

Who says Americans can't "do irony"!

John Mack has a great post about AZ trying to replace Vytorin with Crestor!

The irony:

The ENHANCE and METEOR studies are similar in one respect: each studied only a few hundred people over a limited time period. Merck and Schering-Plough are trying to say we shouldn't place too much emphasis on a clinical trial involving only a few hundred people. Yet, a clinical trial involving only a few hundred people was good enough for the FDA to approve a new Crestor indication worth hundred of millions of dollars to AstraZeneca!

Hmm!

Maybe the FDA should rethink that Crestor indication!


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